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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Long Weekend

This has been a very long weekend. It was Kaylyn's birthday weekend. Friday after Art Camp was done, we went to a birthday dinner at Carrabbas and then to see a Magic Show at church from an Illusionist Christian couple. She really enjoyed that and kept asking, "Mommy, how'd they do that?" Saturday morning we had Kaylyn's last basketball game. Then we had the birthday party at the Bear Factory in the mall with 19 kids. They all had a blast! Then we went to church Saturday night. Today we went grocery shopping, went to Toys 'R Us to spend the gift cards and money from her birthday, went to Target to return a duplicate and get something else, went to Old Navy to use the 30% off coupon for a good cause (got Kaylyn & Ashlyn some matching outfits for when we go to China), went to Famous Footwear to get new running shoes for me (and got Kaylyn another pair since it was buy one get one 1/2 off), and then to the mall to see if we saw anything at the Children's Gap to use the 30% off coupon there also. But alas, there was nothing in the Gap we liked. Now Kaylyn is in bed early not feeling too good from all the shopping today. I think she's just really exhausted. Hopefully she feels better to start zoo art camp tomorrow :-)

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Our Family

Our Family

My name is Jennifer. I have two beautiful daughters Kaylyn and Ashlyn, and a handsome son. We love to take vacations together as a family. I am a program manager for an aerospace company and I love my job.

About Me

I am from Melbourne, FL and have lived here most of my life. My hobbies are doing crafts and making cards. I have two wonderful daughters and a son who are all very bright and beautiful. I love the Lord and my children with all my heart.

Kaylyn

14 Years Old

Kaylyn

is 14 years old. She was conceived doing IVF and was actually one of the frozen embryos! They told me I was most likely not going to conceive because the embryos had only split into 4 cells, instead of the 8 they like to see when transferring. They put three embryos in and voila...I got one beautiful daughter. She is one of God's gifts to us and we thank him for her every day!

Ashlyn XiangLing

13 Years Old

Ashlyn

is an adorable 13 year old girl who has overcome VSD. She had surgery when she was 2 years old to correct this heart defect and God put it in our heart to reach out to her and take her in to be our daughter. Kaylyn was excited about getting a younger sister (even if it's only 6.5 months younger). We couldn't wait to go to China to get her and bring her home so that we could be her forever family.Since being back, we have learned that she has had other special needs like infundibulum of the right ventricle, a submucous cleft palate, and a cholesteatoma with hearing loss. We take it day by day and we wouldn't want it any other way! She is a joy to everyone who meets her and God has very special plans for her.

Jesse

10 years old

Jesse

is a handsome 10 year old boy that God placed in our lives to reach out and adopt locally. He is a loving, sweet boy who has found his way into our hearts!

5/27/2009 – Another shared list came out and we saw a little girl named Huang Xiang Ling, age 6, on the list. We did not see the list till Saturday 5/30/2009 because we were on our 4th Disney cruise. We emailed GWCA and asked to see Xiang Ling’s file.